Jonathan Newman composes music rich with rhythmic drive and intricate sophistication, creating broadly colored musical works that incorporate styles of pop, blues, jazz, folk, and funk into otherwise classical models. Trained as a pianist, trombonist, and singer, his work is informed by an upbringing performing in orchestras, singing in jazz choirs, playing in marching bands, and accompanying himself in talent shows. From opera to bubblegum pop, Newman delivers a new perspective on American concert music. Recent work includes MASS, a large-scale project with texts by poet Victoria Chang which premiered in 2018 with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street as part of their Mass Reimaginings commissioning program. In 2016 he was appointed Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Composer-in-Residence; CYSO’s 2011 commission BLOW IT UP, START AGAIN has been performed by orchestras worldwide, including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the 2015 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms. He is currently working with playwright Gary Winter on an imaginary ballet suite project for the Florida State University Wind Orchestra. He resides in Virginia, where he serves as Director of Composition & Coordinator of New Music at Shenandoah Conservatory.

composer/electric bassist/purveyor of the funk

Even when I was a little boy, it was the music that could inspire me the most and from which I could get the largest force. now I'm working on my way to let them feel this power to other by my music.
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Welcome to the Soundcloud landing page for the innovative new artist Julian Hughes Rowland featuring his first album called "C0NTACT"

I dunno what to say, what could I say? Anything I do say becomes a fundamental eccentricity altering the world around me as I, an insignificant blip in a unfathomable spectrum of reality

becomes what I've dreamed... what I dream, I become, I finally find myself in a unparalleled rushing geyser of force, hurdling through the cosmos, making contact with aliens, and those alike, evenings fall away, as I welcome the unwavering splendor of life, the universe, and everything within, and outside of our minds

I make music to help myself coalesce back into normality after I've spent light-years amongst the stars

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